Pars plana vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peeling compared with intravitreal triamcinolone injection in the treatment of diabetic macular edema

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-23

  Kim, Yong Min ^a   Chung, Eun Jee ^a   Byeon, Suk Ho ^a   Lee, Sung Chul ^a   Kwon, Oh Woong ^a   Koh, Hyoung Jun ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Diabetic macular edema; Triamcinolone acetonide; Vitrectomy

Indexed keywords

BRIMONIDINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

AGED; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 53449083764     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000161878     Document Type: Article

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